Have we learned nothing from Cambridge Analytica?

We learned not to publish as much information about contracts and to have huge networks of third party data sharing so that any actually concerning ones get buried in noise.

A Santoku or other knife with scalloped sides do well. There are also in fact, cheese knifes, for cutting and serving that are popular for self service cheese boards. Wire is also popular for cutting large block cheeses.

The current recommended cutoff is 45 (well, pre the current US administration). So I think it was a question of we tested this at the time in these high risk age groups and we were still waiting on the results for other cohorts that were less important.

If you have time based billing you can also input that into the system and it's even more effective. For example, if you tell it that electricity is cheap from 9am - 5pm (peak solar) and expensive from 5pm - 9pm (peak residential demand) it will take your trending consumption and decide when your solar production isn't keeping up with foretasted demand and let you charge from the grid to at the cheap rate to make up the shortfall and minimize cost. It even factors in things like grid charging speed and total site usage limits, which are great given my 100amp panel.

The charging the battery from the grid on its own is interesting in spaces where the TOU between 4-7pm (or whatever yours is locally).

Here it is more than 3x, so if I can charge a battery and run off of that for those 3 hours, I am saving money.

And it's not that I can lose money, a charge in the battery doesn't become stale.

Don't forget to account for the additional battery wear from extra charging and discharging. However your cost saving probably exceeds the wear cost.

> The professional bakers around me who do a dozen cakes a day or whatnot are all pre-made mixes, maybe some small modifications to the mix, and from-scratch frostings. I'm not sure I could even find a local spot with cakes made from scratch - at least in the traditional sense. The spots making 200 cakes a day perhaps, but those are going to look a lot more like the mixes you buy from Sysco or whatnot.

95% of bakeries are using a box mix and a packet of jello pudding. That's the secret.

My standard cookbook is a 1970s edition of the Joy of Cooking, right before fat became evil and was excised from cookbooks. Everything from how to break down a squirrel to a side of beef.

I have no issues cooking from it with modern ingredients because it doesn't fundamentally use things that aren't "base" ingredients or other recipes in it.

In my experience it's always been legacy hardware or industrial automation where it would cost millions to update the equipment / software. Simply limiting the blast radius of those systems and isolating them on the network into their own security zone is always less expensive and thus the perfectly reasonable solution.

Sure, solar panels get wicked hot and are more efficient when cold, so attaching something to scavenge heat from them, bonus hot water and a little electricity are all wins until you factor in the cost of doing so and realize you would get 10x the return on adding a few more panels.

We have passive thermal heat tubes on our roof to heat our pool. It works amazingly well. I want to put PV on our roof, but that’d mean having to pull up those tubes first and replacing our pool heater with something electric.

Turns out there’s companies that do hybrid systems! Water is used to cool the PV, increasing the efficiency of the panels in the process, and then the heated water is used wherever you need it.

Unfortunately it seems there’s only a couple of providers, it’s rare to find installers that do it, and it’s ssuuuppppeeerrr expensive relative to the normal options. Such a shame. I wish there were more options here. It seems like a great approach.

It's more claim than reality. The addition of water radically increases install costs (the main cost driver!) and dramatically reduces reliability.

If you fully price it out you'll find it's more cost effective to just spam more PV and use a heat pump, unless you've reached space limits.

We just did the opposite and ripped up our solar hot water system. We have a metal roof and a salt water pool. Problem is that these systems can and do leak. Salt water on a metal roof makes creates rust.

With photovoltaic panels being dirt cheap, we decided to rather heat our pool with a heat pump that is powered by our own electricity.

> until you factor in the cost of doing so and realize you would get 10x the return on adding a few more panels.

You're looking what the cost would be now and I don't think they were suggesting that, but rather as a direction of development for panels.

Luckily this is exactly how things work and why we have continues progress in the area, including with the batteries. Because 10 years ago you wouldn't even bother with super expensive Lithium batteries for home energy storage and go with NiCd, right?

Instead of writing a blog post or throwing away a working device, I would have just removed the location permission after updating the wifi...

That hacky workaround is beside the point. Most people arent that conversant with the permissions options on their devices. And even if they are, intentionally forcing them to turn it off is the problem: Google doesn’t care about your experience or your privacy. They just want to take advantage of captive users.

I don't feel anything when using it, but it does do a much better job with hot / cold sensitivity than anything else I have tried on the market. I find it more effective than Biomin or Nano-Hydroxyapatite.